Setting anti skate on a VPI for Soundsmith cart

You may drive yourself crazy determining if AS is correct on your VPI.

On my Classic,1 or 4 orings doesn't seem to affect the speed of arm moving toward the center of a record.

HW says don't bother. I never "heard" a difference either way.

Unless you have the patience moving the counterintuitive left or right, a pro setup or fozgometer is the solution. A slight tilt either way may smooth out those S words or tizzy high hats.
 
Sibilance also seems to also be recording dependent. An example is Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man"

On a greatest hits album,its rampant throughout the song. 
With the HG album, barely noticeable and naturally, overall presentation nicer. This is just my experience, I read others report 
zero sibilance with any record they play.

YMMV, it's just audio madness.

The Soundsmith is not broken in yet. Phono carts break in a lot. Don't judge it until you have at least 100 hours in it.

@ last_lemming
Sometimes lowering the VTA will help with sibilance problems.  Give that a try!

Thanks guys. For now I'm going with no AS and keeping the cart level. Once fully broken in I'll mess with VTA and such. 

Would it it be correct to assume that the upper limit of VTF would also help aliviate silibance?

Once I heard the difference that no a/s offered it clearly meant me taking off the a/s gizmo from my 3D arm.   What I hear is center soloists are much more clearly delineated....  no bleed left or right...the soloist is clearly right there.  Once I could hear that, i noticed that all the other instruments had their place in the sound space....much more air around the instruments, etc.  I recommend everyone interested to just try no a/s and listen critically, and make your own assessments.  

VTA adjustment is (to me) very tricky.  ...but be sure to readjust your vtf at each adjustment.  This took me about a month of listening, adjust, etc.  Its well worth the time it takes. When you are through adjusting, then check to see if the stylus is in the proper position on the measuring device (Mint, metal VPI guage, etc.)...chances are it has changed.

My experience with vtf....there is one absolutely correct vtf that was engineered into the cartridge.  At this optimum, the magnets, coils of wire, etc. are in their proper position to extract what the designer had intended. After all this adjusting, you just may be battle worn and allow it to be "close"...